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Candice Bergen, taking a shot at JD Vance at the 2024 Emmy Awards:

"[On ‘Murphy Brown’] I was surrounded by brilliant and funny actors, had the best scripts to work with, and in one classic moment, my character was attacked by Vice President Dan Quayle when Murphy became pregnant and decided to raise the baby as a single mother. Oh, how far we've come. Today, a Republican candidate for Vice President would never attack a woman for having kids. So as they say, my work here is done. Meow."

Former Vice President Dan Quayle called out the TV show in May 1992 and said that Brown's character "mocks the importance of fathers."

It seems JD Vance is Dan Quayle 2.0.

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Sarah Huckabee Sanders, The Felon’s liar and Press Secretary, seeming to mock Kamala Harris for not having biological children while telling a story about a chat with her daughter:

″‘It’s okay, mommy [she said], one day you can be pretty too.' So my kids keep me humble. Unfortunately, Kamala Harris doesn’t have anything keeping her humble. You would think after four years of straight failure, she would.”

First off, Klannie Oakley, Kamala is a step-mother which makes her a parent, unless you think anyone one who adopts a child or marries someone with children, is not a parent.

Secondly, you wonky-eyed moron, if you don’t like Kamala’s policies, attack her all you want, but this personal attack, woman to woman, is childish and stupid and proves you are just a brainless pawn for the white GOP men.

And lastly, Aunt Lydia, aren’t you the one who rolled back child labor protections in Arkansas, including removing the requirement for employers to secure work certificates for minors under 16? Yes, and a month before the bill was enacted, a food sanitation company was fined $1.5 million for employing minors in hazardous meatpacking roles in Arkansas.

Please don’t talk about children at all and leave them the fuck alone.

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Kerstin Emhoff, Doug Emhoff’s ex-wife, and documentary filmmaker, firing back at Sanders with an instant fact-check:

"Cole and Ella keep us inspired to make the world a better place. I do it through storytelling. Kamala Harris has spent her entire career working for the people, ALL families. That keeps you pretty humble."

I’ll take one Kamala over a thousand Klannie Oakley’s any day.

One Kerstin, too.

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Melanie, promoting her upcoming $250—yes, you read that right—book, on her nude photos:

“Why do I stand proudly behind my nude modeling work? The more pressing question is why has the media chosen to scrutinize my celebration of the human form in a fashion photo shoot? Are we no longer able to appreciate the beauty of the human body? Throughout history, master artists have revered the human shape, evoking profound emotions and admiration. We should honor our bodies and embrace the timeless tradition of using art as a powerful means of self-expression.”

No, Melanie, the more pressing question is why this story has been around since before 2016 and yet only now are you talking about your soft-core porn photo shoot.

It’s to sell books, that’s all; you have no altruistic motive other than to make money so save your holier-than-thou celebrate the human body bull shiz for anyone who believes you.

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Steph Curry, on Haitians, Kamala  and the debate:

“My beautiful half Haitian mother will be roasting a pig tonight, just like Kamala Harris did during the debate.”

Snap.

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Marlon Wayans, on Elon Musk disowning his transgender daughter, Vivian Jenna Wilson:

“I don’t like what he be saying about his trans child. You don’t treat them babies like that, you don’t disown your baby. Love your child! But as hard as it was, I think that it’s not important. It’s important what you went through; the five steps of grief, but I think it’s important that you get to acceptance and I’m proud to say it took me a week—but it felt like forever. I’m sad to say some parents, some family members, and some people it’ll take them a lifetime. They’ll never get to that magical place that I’m at which is just acceptance. Still my child. That’s my baby.”

One father who admits to not quite understanding the trans issue but loving his child unconditionally and listening and learning, and another father who deadnames his trans child and then disowns her.

That’s the difference between a father and a sperm donor.

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Pete Buttigieg, Secretary of Transportation , condemning false claims lies by The Felon and The Couchfucker about Haitians eating dogs:

“This is a strategy to get us talking about the latest crazy thing that he did [because] the last thing he wants us to do is to talk about his record or his agenda. So what he wants us talking about is whatever crazy nonsense he can thrust into the center of the internet and the media conversation, which this week happens to be this stuff about eating cats or dogs or geese or whatever. He doesn’t want us talking about the fact that we lost manufacturing jobs on his watch even before Covid, which is why the United Auto Workers are against him. He doesn’t want us talking about the fact that his main economic policy promise he actually kept was to cut taxes for the rich. He doesn’t want us talking about how he demolished the right to choose in this country, that he’s the reason that even IVF could be banned in many places in this country. This is a country of 300 million people. They’ll probably sooner or later find some case where somebody somewhere did something weird to a cat and try to make that into a reason to prolong this so that we could be talking about anything but [The Felon]’s track record of destroying jobs in this country and destroying the right to choose, and the fact that if given the chance to do so again, that’s what he would double down on. Every election is about the future. Kamala Harris [is] talking about the future, [while] [The Felon]’s talking about the past. He wants us talking about people allegedly eating cats, which is not happening.”

Once again, Pete boils it down to simple facts.

Pay attention to the lies and nonsense, but don’t get swallowed up by them. Remember who The Felon is, and what he’s done, and who he’s chosen as his running mate, and what that fool stands for, and then vote Blue, all the way.

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The other morning I was walking past our bedroom when I heard Carlos talking to Rosita:

“She’s such a pretty girl. Pretty girl. Ohhhhhh, she’s so pretty. Pretty girl. Such a pretty girl. Who’s the pretty girl.”

“Why don’t you two get a room.”

“This is our room.”

I guess I’m sleeping in the guest room now?

This Tuxedo memory is from November 2019 and is entitled “Tuxedo Went To The Vet”

I noticed Tuxedo had licked the fur off the back of his front leg and so, after Carlos did a quick check, we took him to the vet to see what was what. Turns out it may have been a bug bite that he scratched and then cut into his skin, so he began licking to clean it and the fur came off; or, it is the result of a play fight with either Max or Consuelo. Either way, it’s nothing bad and he’s on antibiotics—which he hates—and a twice daily cleanse of the area.

But this isn’t about that, it’s about the joy of Tuxedo. See, he was a bit of an abused cat when we rescued him; he’d been adopted out several times and always returned to the vet’s office in Miami as “mean.” Then we took him and let him acclimate to our house and the five other cats we had at the time, and Tuxedo has become the sweetest, friendliest cat ever.

And that leads us to the vet’s office in Smallville.

While he cried in the car on the ride, once there he was calm and watching the goings on from inside his carrier. When we got in with the vet tech, as she was weighing him and checking him out, he was perfectly calm and easy going. Then came to thermometer up the butt; and he was calm and handled it like any bottom at any gay bar anywhere … or something. But … as she finished with him, Tuxedo stood on his hind legs and put his paws on my chest and rested his head against me. The vet tech squeeed with delight about the hug he was giving me.

When the doctor came in, the vet tech was holding Tuxedo for the exam, and he stood on his hind legs and gave the vet tech a hug, too. The doctor loved that and asked if Tuxedo would give her a hug and, yes, he did. And then they took his picture while hugging the doctor.

Long story a little shorter … as we left with his medications we stopped to pay at the desk and were asked our pet’s name.

“Tuxedo.”

“The one who hugged the doctor?”

“Um, yeah. Do you want one?”

“Can I?”

And she could.

At the Emmy’s this week first-time nominee, for Reservation Dogs, D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai made a powerful statement by arriving with a red handprint over his mouth, symbolizing solidarity with missing and murdered Indigenous women. It stands for all the missing sisters whose voices are not heard. It stands for the silence of the media and law enforcement in the midst of this crisis.

If you didn’t know about the epidemic of missing and murdered Indigenous women, and how little help is giving by local authorities and government agencies to tribal police, take a look at Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women USA MMIWUSA

A friend posted to Facebook that according to PureWow she, as a Virgo, is one of two excellent cult leaders, with Aquarius, which is me, being the second. I commented that I needed my own cult, and she posted what my cult would be like according to PureWow:

"Fixed air sign Aquarius leads a stylish cult. Ruled by Saturn, planet of discipline and structure, Aquarius is a sign that others naturally look up to as an authority figure. All of the air signs are social and very into spreading knowledge and ideas. But unlike their fellow air signs [Gemini and Libra], Aquarius loves the info, but also has a lot of style in their approach to travel, education and cult-ivation. This is because Aquarius’s ninth house is Libra, another Venus-ruled sign. Aquarius is very strategic when it comes to starting their cult. The PR is always on point. Who can resist a great logo in a cute font? Or a targeted merch drop? Joining the cult of Aquarius is like joining a scene that never goes out of style."

Oh, I need to jumpstart my cult.

Pearl Jam singer Eddie Vedder recently changed the lyrics to their song “Daughter” to make a politically charged statement.

At a Wrigley Field show last month, in the middle of their song “Daughter,” the band played a portion of Pink Floyd’s “Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 2” but fans noticed a slight variation as Vedder took the opportunity to change the lyrics to something a little timelier. Where the song would normally say, “Teachers leave them kids alone…” Vedder sang:

“Politicians leave our daughters alone.

A woman’s right to choose is her own.”

Just another way to get the message out that one party is pro-women and the other is own women.

There is nothing like having some cakes as a midnight snack; and you all know exactly what I mean.

Speaking of musicians doing good work, Jon Bon Jovi, known for helping the unhoused, the hungry and America’s vets, talked someone out of taking her own life in a video shared by the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department.

The video shows Bon Jovi slowly approaching a woman on the John Seigenthaler Pedestrian Bridge. Bon Jovi happened to be filming a music video for his song “People’s House” when he and his team noticed the woman standing on the outer ledge of the bridge and clenching onto the handrails. He stopped a few feet away from her and spoke to her before moving closer alongside another bystander.

It’s unclear what was said, but Jon and the other individual convinced the woman to return to the main part of the bridge; they helped her back over the railing and then the trio walked away.

Bon Jovi has extensive training in interacting with people in crisis due to his Jon Bon Jovi Soul Foundation. He has chosen not to make a statement regarding his actions out of respect for the woman  but the Nashville Police Department has praised him for his actions.

Y’all know Diddy got nabbed, right? Well, according to the grand jury indictment, during that raid on his homes in Miami, Florida and Los Angeles the feds discovered “more than 1,000 bottles of baby oil and lubricant” for his ALLEGED Freak Off parties.

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Diddy was charged with three counts: racketeering conspiracy; sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion; and transportation to engage in prostitution. In addition Combs is currently facing at least eight lawsuits accusing him of sexual assault, rape, sexual misconduct and more. He remains in jail.

No word on what happened to all that lube but, in a world of Diddy’s be a Bon Jovi or a Vedder.

Atila Escolano Sánchez is a Spanish model and singer which is all very nice, but Would You Hit It?

Architecture Wednesday: Claremont Church

This converted chapel, close to the heart of the city of Bath, has been carefully restored to create a light-filled, voluminous family home set beneath original arched ceilings with over 3,500 square feet, five bedrooms and a generous rear garden.

Built in 1881 the Victorian chapel, has been updated and modified; its current owner spared improved the space’s thermal performance with secondary glazing added inside the windows in order to retain their elegant original frames and additional insulation alongside underfloor heating across the living spaces. A large round window at the front, complete with its original tracery, is fitted with stained glass designed by students from Bath City College in 1990 and, while the original proportions of the chapel have been preserved, two mezzanines were added to create additional living space and bedrooms.

A blue-painted arched doorway leads into a generous foyer with colorful original floor tiles and stained-glass windows. Beyond is the entrance hall, where tumbled oak floorboards begin and lead into the main living space: a triple-height room featuring an open-plan kitchen, dining and living spaces lit by the original tall windows. The kitchen has quartz countertops, a refined Lacanche stove, generous island and opens into a utility room, with further cabinetry and a second sink. On the other side is a sitting room space, with built-in cabinetry; a quiet place, perfect to curl up and read a book or watch a film.

A mezzanine level, which starts just underneath the striking stained-glass window, makes for another living area or study and provides views back across the ground floor. Below is a useful boot room, perfect for hanging coats and kicking off shoes, as well as a study and a guest powder room.

The mezzanine at the opposite end of the home is where you find the main bedroom, with double-height ceilings, dressing room and luxurious bathroom, with a freestanding bath set against Versailles parquet floors. There is another bedroom on this floor, also with a dressing room and a shower room.

From there, steps descend to three other bedrooms; one has an en suite with a shower, while the remaining two share a family bathroom. There is additional linen closet and a door that opens to the back garden.

The garden surrounds two sides of the house, providing a side entrance from the street. South-east-facing, it has exceptional views across Solsbury Hill, Prior Park, Bathwick Hill, central Bath and fields upon fields of green. Some mornings, the mist hangs in the valley until it burns off in the sun. The garden is partly paved, creating space for a table and chairs, and partly laid to lawn, framed by borders ready to be planted in the Spring. Two residents parking permits come with the house.

This is my kind of church, peaceful, calm, and home.

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